Heh, I read this a couple of years ago and laughed my @$$ off because it's ridiculous enough to laugh at, but something that catastrophic occurring inside a starship that large is improbable but not impossible._________________Sutehp's RPG Goodies
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Just repurchased the X-Wing and Tie Fighter flight sim games. I forgot how much I missed them.

It’s in the opening crawl of “The Force Awakens.” Luke Skywalker, right now, is the last Jedi. ...coming into our story, he is the actual last of the Jedi. And he’s removed himself and is alone on this island, for reasons unknown.

We hear a voice in the teaser trailer say, “It’s time for the Jedi to end.” Is that Luke speaking?

That’s him. It sounds pretty dire. That’s something that we’re definitely going to dig into. The heart of the movie is Luke and Rey. It follows all the other characters, but its real essence is the development of the two of them.

This isn't the Luke that [Rey] heard about. It's not the one we know, either. This is a broken man. One who would have preferred to stay lost. And he feels the same way about that lightsaber. "The fact that Luke says, 'I only know one truth. It's time for the Jedi to end...' I mean, that's a pretty amazing statement for someone who was the symbol of hope and optimism in the original films," Mark Hamill says of his character, referencing a quote from the film's first trailer. "When I first read that, my jaw dropped. What would make someone that alienated from his original convictions? That's not something you can just make up in an afternoon, and I really struggled with this thing."

Goddamn, not even Obi-Wan turned into a Knight in Sour Armor in A New Hope after all he went through. What happened to Luke that he would throw away all his deepest convictions and voluntarily go into exile?_________________Sutehp's RPG Goodies
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Just repurchased the X-Wing and Tie Fighter flight sim games. I forgot how much I missed them.

This isn't the Luke that [Rey] heard about. It's not the one we know, either. This is a broken man. One who would have preferred to stay lost. And he feels the same way about that lightsaber. "The fact that Luke says, 'I only know one truth. It's time for the Jedi to end...' I mean, that's a pretty amazing statement for someone who was the symbol of hope and optimism in the original films," Mark Hamill says of his character, referencing a quote from the film's first trailer. "When I first read that, my jaw dropped. What would make someone that alienated from his original convictions? That's not something you can just make up in an afternoon, and I really struggled with this thing."

Goddamn, not even Obi-Wan turned into a Knight in Sour Armor in A New Hope after all he went through. What happened to Luke that he would throw away all his deepest convictions and voluntarily go into exile?

This is my interpretation of one particular theory concerning Rey being Luke's daughter. My interpretation is that Luke's wife was killed during the First Order's attack on Luke's Academy. During the attack, Rey was abducted then abandoned on Jakku and Luke was never told. Of course, Rey is not her real name.

Because of this, Luke went into ultra depression mode. When he left in search of the First Jedi Temple and discovered it on Ach-To along with the Jedi books, he exhaustively pored through the books. I think what he found in those books changed his view of the Jedi.

Heard on this evenings news cause of the director switchover, the movie's being kicked back to Dec 18, instead of earlier in the year.._________________It's Not who you kill, but how they die!
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If the reports of the leaked screenplay can be trusted, Luke "doesn’t need to ask her who she is, or what she is doing here." One thing unusual about Disney Star Wars is that they are not publishing the screenplays for some reason.

I seem to recall reading or hearing of something that I thought was in the TFA novelization (which I don't own and haven't read yet). I thought I read somewhere that the last few lines of the novelization specifically say that Luke recognized Rey instantly. Then again, IIRC that last scene is written from Rey's perspective, so that's probably wrong.

This is just MHO, but that look on Luke's face when he sees Rey for the first time does seem to me to be a mix of resigned recognition and "This Is Gonna Suck". They both seem on the verge of tears at that last moment._________________Sutehp's RPG Goodies
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Just repurchased the X-Wing and Tie Fighter flight sim games. I forgot how much I missed them.

I seem to recall reading or hearing of something that I thought was in the TFA novelization (which I don't own and haven't read yet). I thought I read somewhere that the last few lines of the novelization specifically say that Luke recognized Rey instantly. Then again, IIRC that last scene is written from Rey's perspective, so that's probably wrong.

This is just MHO, but that look on Luke's face when he sees Rey for the first time does seem to me to be a mix of resigned recognition and "This Is Gonna Suck". They both seem on the verge of tears at that last moment.

Actually, the passage in the TFA novelisation states that as Rey was making her way towards her meeting with Luke, she comes across a figure shrouded in a simple cloak and robe and instantly knew the figure to be Luke Skywalker.

TLJ tickets went on sale tonight. I had heard they would go on sale after the new trailer appeared during half-time of Monday Night Football, which would have been like TFA two years ago. So I planned my evening which included grocery shopping, dinner for my son and I, and bath/bedtime rituals for my son. We stayed on schedule and I had the ESPN score page and my movie tickets purchase theater page up ready to refresh when the tickets went on sale, only to discover that the tickets had gone on sale early. The 7:00pm showing on December 14th was already sold out, so I moved on to 7:30pm and had my choice of the very front row or about the middle. My son likes the back/top row but that wasn't happening, and the very front row sucks, even in reclining seats. So the middle it was, with our group of 7 split up by a handicap seat. The yellow seats our ours: